Why is The Vampire Diaries just so darn watchable? It shouldn’t be: it’s basically a teen
soap opera with all the emo-filled relationship drivel you get on shows like Gossip Girl or
90210. The fact there are vamps, werewolves and witches doesn’t really change things –
they sleep around, fall in love and pine over their exes, just like everybody else. At times
it’s hard to remember this is an SFX show… but then someone turns into a werewolf in a
flurry of bone-crunching FX and everything’s cool again.


It’s The Vampire Diaries’ stupendously fast pace and shameless cliffhanger-mongering
that keeps us coming back – particularly this season. There’s a ton of fun to be had with
Elena’s evil vamp doppelganger, Katherine, and the head games she plays with the
Salvatore brothers; boring bonehead Caroline gets bitten and ends up actually
developing a personality; werewolves trot into town to snap at the vampires’ heels. Oh,
and best of all, Damon is reassuringly Damon: the wittiest, naughtiest antihero we’ve
seen in years. You may as well just watch for him.


The Vampire Diaries is legit. Like virtually all new shows, it takes some time to warm up,
and the first batch of episodes are rife with high school melodrama, feeling a lot like…
well, your usual CW show. But once the characters are established and the
relationships are settled, the storytelling shifts into thriller status, building up an
engaging mythology, while moving away from the teeny-bopper drama.

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